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Retreat Dharma Talks
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2022-04-14
Maranasati: Practice with Death and Dying
50:31
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James Baraz
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The Buddha suggested reflecting regularly on five aspects of life called the Five Reflections (also called the Five Remembrances). This talk focuses on what he called "the most supreme of all meditations": mindfulness of death or maranasati. Although contemplation of one's death might seem unsettling or scary, when undertaken as a conscious practice it can be extremely enlivening and even liberating.
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2022-04-16
The Shoerack of Life
48:14
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Life is interactive and irregular with moments regarded as too much or too little. We use community as a field of practice to span these, developing awareness, knowing how to manage the volitional formations, self making impulses that cause suffering.
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2022-04-17
Invite the Miraculous
26:47
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Ayya Medhanandi
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In the face of horrific suffering, how can we abide in the ground of love, protected from every kind of pain? True path effort – inspired courage leaning on virtue – ardently works its way into the heart. Through the power of forgiveness, patient enough to love without blame, we touch the fount of compassion itself. We invite the miraculous.
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2022-04-17
Hauntingly Beautiful
20:10
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Ayya Medhanandi
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Where is safety in this world? As the Buddha taught: “Not apart from awakening and austerity, not apart from sense restraint, not apart from relinquishing everything do I see any safety for any living being”. So with unshakeable faith, not faltering in the face of difficulty or pain, we nurture heroic patience and compassion. Wisely probing and seeing the Noble Truths of suffering, its cause, its ending, and the way beyond suffering, we hasten to follow the Noble Eightfold Path into the stream and across – to our freedom
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2022-04-18
Neoliberalism and Mindfulness
19:36
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Bhante Bodhidhamma
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Not an economic critique, but looking at the basic moral attitude of greed/acquisitiveness and antagonistic competition and the consequences. And the role that Mindfulness, especially Mindfulness and Stress Reduction plays.
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2022-04-20
Lovingkindness – Part 1 of Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love
56:34
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Tara Brach
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Part 1: Lovingkindness – We awaken our natural lovingkindness by learning to attend to and take in the goodness of this life.
This series reflects on four primary expressions of an awake, wise heart: lovingkindness, compassion, joy and equanimity. In each talk we explore the habitual patterning that blocks our full realization of these innate capacities, and the understandings and practices that nurture their unfolding.
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2022-04-20
Sangha as Refuge
35:46
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Jill Shepherd
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In the context of the Buddha’s teachings, sangha or community is known as one of the three jewels and we’re invited to “take refuge” in sangha as an aspect of the path to freedom. This talk will offer some reflections on what this might mean, and explore what conditions support the establishing and maintaining of healthy practice communities.
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